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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">There was a recent interview with Jane Goodall. She hoped that one good thing that would come out of the pandemic would be a government ban on the sale of wild animals for food in China. My contacts in Yunnan have
written to say that this is going on right now and it might become permanent, In Kunming, for example, you are not even allowed to slaughter a live chicken in an open air market anymore.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">What we must understand, though, is that the Asian demand for medicinal herbs from the wild was NEVER sustainable. Poaching was going on long before this pandemic (see attached pp.368-370). If you go to the Himalayas
you will see that every time a new road goes through plant thieves come in and deplete target species. Readers need to understand that an awful lot of Chinese herbal medicine resembles the Western concept of "the Doctrine of Signatures." These people think
nothing about going into protected areas including sites maintained by the Kunming Institute of Botany. Why did a group of young people arrive on their pink motorcycles (see my photo, they hid their faces) to remove every Spirnathes sinensis from a wet meadow?
Because the flowering stalk, as it pushes up in July, resembles an erect penis and is in demand as some sort of male virility treatment. The activity of these poachers astounds the local Naxi people who have no real use for the plant. In fact, S. sinensis
is now a target because other white, terrestrial, orchid species in this part of the world have become rarer due to over collection.</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 7, 2020 7:36:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org <native-plants@lists.plantconservation.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] [PCA] April 7 World Health Day: Covid-19 & wild plants</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Today is a World Health Day, and to mark the occasion and draw attention to the role of plants in covid-19 treatment, increasing demand for herbal medicines, and identify priority actions, I would like to share a short
paper, which is available here: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.traffic.org/news/covid-19-the-role-of-wild-plants-in-health-treatment/__;!!K543PA!fc7ySu4-2QnhTkSsIPKpsR_TBJ9TKsDrMoD9xYIUrPZ2GYIHmYmrCcnyEtoR9b5sKuIt$">
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This started as a paper focussed primarily on traditional Chinese medicine official treatment formulations, but expanded to reflect the increasing demand for immune-system supporting ingredients, many of which come
from the wild (with little consideration of how sustainable their use and trade is). This of course links directly to the implementation of GSPC, and so I hope you find it relevant.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Please feel free to share with your networks, and I hope this can prompt some more actions around the ‘visibility’ of wild plants use, and the sustainability of wild-sourcing practices. Any of your feedback is very
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